How to Conquer the Devil
Edited by David Swanson The first thing you have to understand about America is the devil is real here. Not a metaphor or a corny Halloween costume or some...
Notable Sandwiches #53: Cudighi
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s...
Kind of a Crazy Story
Edited by Talia Lavin The author in the Gubbio Studiolo at the Met, 2016 A manic episode begins with a stirring, followed by a spark, like seemingly dormant...
Notable Sandwiches #52: Cucumber
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Thank You For Not Smoking
Edited by David Swanson Robert Redford and Paul Newman on a cigarette break during the filming of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Hi all, I’m trying once...
Notable Sandwiches #51: The Cuban
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Anatomy of a Con: The Mark
Edited by David Swanson The scene this week in Brasília Last week was the anniversary of one failed coup, and the beginning of another. As the angry crowds...
Notable Sandwiches #50: Le Croque Monsieur et Le Croque Madame
Welcome to the latest installment of Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the bizarre document...
The Great Right-Wing Con Job
It’s 2023—once again I find that the 2020s feel like sci-fi dates to me and lament that we don’t have a Galactic Federation yet—and I’m so delighted to have...
Notable Sandwiches #49: Crisp
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the baffling document that is Wikipedia’s...
Gilt by Association
Edited by David Swanson A panel from the Arch of Titus in Rome It’s Chanukah, day two of the Festival of Lights, where we celebrate the victory of heroic...
Notable Sandwiches #48: Corned Beef
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
The Man Who Would Be King
Edited by David Swanson The Waidmannsheil hunting lodge in Bad Lobenstein, Thuringia, where Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss planned his coup The man lived a...
Notable Sandwich: Editor's Note
The Notable Sandwich Team has been hit by a series of maladies this week, and rather than deliver a half-hearted column, we’ve opted to marshal our resources...
Emma Goldman Book Club: Can a Revolutionary Enjoy Beauty?
Emma is all about free love. And men… men are digging it. In a remarkably chaste and innocent way! The would-be suitors: Sasha Berkman, an uncompromising...
World War I, Part II: The King and Apis
The assassination and autopsy of Serbia’s King Alexander I and Queen Draginja (left) and the aftermath (right), 1903 In 1903, more than a decade before a...
Notable Sandwich #47: the Club Sandwich
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series in which I, alongside my editor David Swanson, stumble through the strange and ever-shifting document that is...
Emma Goldman Book Club: Bad Sex at the Corset Factory
Previously: Chapter 1 Welcome back to the Emma Goldman Book Club, as we go through Emma Goldman’s juicily frank memoir, “Living My Life,” one chapter a week....
Thanksgrieving
This is a specific story. A specific small giant has gone, a woman possessed of a certain kind of midcentury glamor that has largely passed from the world,...
Notable Sandwiches: Post-Thanksgiving Special
In lieu of our regularly scheduled sandwich content, Talia and I decided to honor America’s post-Thanksgiving eating traditions—and satisfy our own...